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future tech

“Car companies are finally realising that what they sell is just a big computer you sit in.”

So says Kevin Tighe, a senior systems engineer at security testing firm Bugcrowd according to this Guardian article, reporting from the “car-hacking village” at this year’s Defcon, the hacker conference.

Touchpoint Group is planning to develop “the world’s angriest artificial intelligence machine,” which is named Radiant after a sci-fi supercomputer that could predict future behavior. The point of the very angry AI research project is to learn what makes folks go nuclear during customer service calls and how to avoid those issues.